The National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) is to make employees well-being programme an aspect of its curriculum to train students across the country, to ensure that beneficiaries of the programme would assist their employers to develop strategic plans towards their well-being and safety issues.
Speaking at the opening of a day’s workshop on employee well-being at the NVTI Pilot Training Institute in Accra, the Director of NVTI, Mr Stephen Bismark Amponsah, said it was important for those working in both the formal and informal sectors, to understand what employee well-being was. He said that was necessary because when they were working with their colleagues and someone was under stress, they would appreciate the need to help that person so that the best could be secured for him or her.
The programme was organised by the NVTI in partnership with the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), to sensitise employees and employers to manage employees and productivity. Mr Amponsah said the NVTI had been working with GIZ since 2011, on various projects, including the pharmaceutical technology (pharmatech) programme, aimed at, among other things, training people as technicians in laboratories in the pharmaceutical industry.
Mr Amponsah noted that Ghana could not be left out on issues related to employee well-being, pointing out that, “These are things we have to take seriously so that productivity in the end would not suffer. It should be a key aspect of employer-employee relationship in industry. It should not just be profit-minded in industry”. The acting Commissioner for Testing at the NVTI, Mr Christian Agorba, said the employee well-being programme had become a unique selling point of the GIZ, adding that the concept was in high demand in Ghana and beyond.
“Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) schools are entry points to reach large parts of the young people with health promotion and financial literacy. Being healthier will enhance their ability to learn,” he said.
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